I do urban walks, I do rural walks, but most importantly I do interesting walks of lesser explored neighborhoods and places that have stories to tell. Join my first person view walks while I share some history and insights on the areas and neighborhoods we see and experience together.
I lived in Sulphur Springs for 10 yrs. and this is the first time I've seen the "spring". Was never brave enough to jump the fence. Its nice to finally see it.
It is a horrible area. believe me. i have been in the tampa bay area for many years. i had a job to do a couple of years ago in sulpher springs it was horrible. i told the boss i'm not going to go there again and most of east tampa. very depressing.
Downtown Clearwater is sadly blighted. Decades ago it had such potential. Now it's a wasteland as other cities in Pinellas County have revitalized. No one wants to be near the "mafia" like Scientologists. Fear of lawsuits and harassment.
i cant belive this the last projects. BUILT ON A GRAVE! & thye gonna knock it down & put somethint there for the other people smdh! this was all black people really had & they gonna take it!
I'm from Robles Park ( Wild Side) raised there since I was 3. They are about to knock them down starting January and all occupants have to be out by next month. Saw a lot in those apartments lost my best friend as well over there on New Year's night 2 years ago😢
This is my first time on your channel.. I just want to 👍 to you for your work. I like how you interact walk roun an get personal perspective. Now I'm from Robles I'm younger then Rickey. He a character but I wish he could have answered your question a lil bit better. But he was truthful. I knew bout the cemetery young. My pops told me the projects was haunted. I used to sleep walk as a child. Have fucked up dreams from time to time that has our old apartment 213 Moore St where you where in my dreams still to this day. Its very much haunted. But I have great memories in Robles that I'll always be proud to be from there. Great video
Lots of gentrification happening in west tampa. It’s going to be all new homes in 50 years. My parents lived on Leroy Street near Armenia. They bought their house for $55,000 in the 1980s. Many of the houses in their neighborhood are now over 100 years old, and being torn down for new construction
Thank you for your video. I enjoyed it very much. But, I am going to say something that may piss off a lot of people. West Tampa prior to incorporating into the City of Tampa was mainly settled my Spanish, Cuban and Italian immigrates in the late 19th century. This included my great, great grand parents on my mother's side who came from Spain and Cuba. These are the people who worked hard in the cigar factories that lined West Tampa. They also opened small business, including restaurants and grocery stores for the community They didn't ask for government hand outs and didn't get any. They even created their own medical service that they paid dues each month for. Yet, today, with this far left woke agenda there is very recognition for these people who made West Tampa great in it's hey day. Not only that, A. L. Cuesta Elementary School, named after a prominent Cuban who founded Cuesta-Rey Cigars was torn down and rebuilt with the name West Tampa Elementary. It is disgusting how the woke left is doing everything it can to wipe out the pass history of immigrants who settled in West Tampa and what it was once.
Great stuff! A whopping 5 minutes of interesting information padded into a 17 minute video by taking us along on EVERY tedious footstep and looking at amazing chain-link fences and nondescript undergrowth. Maybe edit this down?
Just have to say again, Superb Job. Your detailed information and historical references were surprising to hear. Most tours ive seen give very vague information. New Sub!
@@RurbanWalker They're torn down and they West River Project has been partially built. Other than Tampa Park which is being torn down I think Robles was the last of them. Thanks for the video.
Thank you for this! The late 1920s Florida land boom/bust wiped out many old Florida families including my own. The Great Depression followed closely on its heels and compounded the misery! Thank you for such a well researched video of our local history!
I'm fairly sure Cruises condobis has an elevator just for a very special sports car. Poor Clearwater Downtown, scientology destroyed the ambiance. "Clearwater Beach has grown way too busy for my family. Scios drove us away after 40 years
I lived there back in the 80's. I see that you had the camera down, and you didn't really go that far in the hood. More so on the very edge. Very smart. If you look like you don't belong there, in some places in there, you're asking for trouble. Sundays are usually quiet for most places. I don't know if that was strategic, but that was smart
I use to swim in that pool in the mid 60s as a kid, that water was freezing, went to the drive-in as well, but what I really want to know is how did you not get arrested for trespassing?, that was mighty brave of you walking around that area as well.
Tower Drive-In movies defined our Hillsborough High School years thru 1970s. $2 for a carload of teens. Then in 70s hippies attending USF, all lived within the wood houses with 2 story garage apts, oak laden big frame porches and bench swings. By the 1980s, I lived in NYC, only the dig track was left if the sulphur Springs antiquity. the vintage houses were still there but Florida Avenue Projects were becoming run down and dangerous (all renovated,torn down old fir new charming low income housing 3,000s). That main drag running through Seminole Hard. Was always laden with car lots and fast foods, but that was North FL Ave. past Forest Hills, now it's both sides, enormous new car lots along with the proliferation if buy here. Pay here used cars. Dog track acreage was paved for a giant Kmart back in the day, strip malls across front. Running dogs as betting sport fell out of favor only closing in about the past 10 years. Thanks for this great tour.
Just discovered your channel, really cool stuff. Also a long time Tampa resident here (since '93) . I always thought the water tower was the only part of the springs that was left, really cool to see the stuff on the other side of 275 by the Gazebo/Dog Track.
they've been redoing tampa past 10yrs now,, alot of projects like gasworx and channelside just got approved and other areas sulphur springs was a site for the rays but now will be something similar to "midtown" im sure will get re done once this train is connected to tampa from orlando/miami. palmetto beach/shrimp docks would be cool to hear some history on...nice walk and history lesson im almost 40 and never been to that spring or tower up close def going to get re done in future.
I was watching your video on Sulphur Springs and then saw this video. From the first second I knew you were at the Bowne House. Visited there many times in the 70’s. Grew up in Flushing/College Point in the 60’s and lived there through 1991. Moved to the Island and then Tampa in 2017. Thanks for the Great videos.
I was born and raised in clearwater, remember in the 70s they came in a bought up hotels, motels, apartment complex. John Travolta used to fly is plane to clearwater Airport and walk down Cleveland Street to Satan's headquartes.😮
Just came across your channel. I always wonder what is the history of that tower when I see it off of I-275. I have never liked the name Sulphur Springs. Sulphur smells terrible, and it makes me think of water that smells like farts.❤
You are some sort of odd documentarian, and I like it. That interview with Ricky was alarming and incredible. Your peripatetic method of video is quite watchable for me. Nice!
Lol "this video blows up". Hope not. I love these videos you make. Keep it up. So much ASMR. I need to find a way to keep your videos running all the time.
